108 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). [ Tephrosia. 
rowly lanceolate, 12—18 lines long by 3-4 lines broad, narrowed gra- 
dually to an acute point, stipellate, the central one on a petiolule 6-8 
lines long, both sides densely silky, the veins subferruginous. Flowers 
20-30 or more in a terminal raceme 6—12 in. long, the lower ones in 
clusters. Pedicel 1-1} lines long, densely grey-silky. Calyx-tube 
campanulate, 2 lines deep, densely clothed ‘with grey and pale brown 
silky hairs, the lower teeth lanceolate, equalling the tube, the upper 
ones deltoid, considerably shorter. Bracts minute, deciduous, subulate. 
Corolla red, 2 in. deep, the standard 4 in. broad, the young pod linear, 
densely grey-villous, 10-12-ovulate, the style flattened in the lower half, 
the stigma penicillate. 
Mozamb. Distr. Manganya hills, H. Waller! 
6. T. emeroides, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 190. Stems woody, the 
branches firm, angular, thinly grey-silky. Stipules setaceous, § 1. 
long. Leaves nearly sessile, the rachis under an inch long, the leaflets 
in 2 or 8 pairs, narrowly oblanceolate, 2 in. long, +-2 in. broad, gla- 
brous above, thinly adpressed grey-silky beneath. Flowers 1-3 in the 
axils of the leaves. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which is 2 lines 
deep, campanulate, thinly silky, the teeth subequal, lanceolate-deltoid, 
reaching halfway down. Corolla yellow. Pod 14-2 in. long, 2 lines 
broad, slightly arcuate, densely clothed with fine short ferruginous 
tomentum, 10-seeded. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit! 
General habit and leaves very like those of T. purpurea. 
7. T. disperma, Welw. mss. A diffuse prostrate annual with ia 
ously branched finely grey-downy stems under a foot long. Stipules 
linear, very minute. Petioles 2-3 lines. Leaflets 7-9, narrowly 
oblanceolate, on a common rachis 6—9 lines long, the terminal one 
12-18 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, blunt with a mucro, the side ones 
much shorter, texture not rigid, both sides grey-green, the under one 
finely grey-downy, the veins inconspicuous. Racemes very lax (inter 
nodes often an inch long) both terminal and leaf-opposed, reaching 
6—9 in, long, the lowest pair of flowers often from the axil of a leat. 
Bracts setaceous, very minute. Pedicels very slender, 14—3 lines long; 
often spreading or deflexed. Calyx } in. long, finely grey-silky, #° 
lanceolate teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla purplish, fugacious; 
half as long again as the calyx. Pod 3 in. long, 2 lines broad, finely 
yrey-downy, 2-, rarely l-seeded, the upper suture straight. Sty! 
glabrous. 
Lower Guinea. Mossamedes, Benguela, in coast sands, Dr. Welwitsch! 
8. T. capillipes, Welw. mss. A slender copiously branched diffuse 
annual with ascending stems a foot or more long with a little fine grey 
pubescence. Stipules setaceous, very minute. Leaves nearly sess ey 
rachis 1-24 in. long; leaflets 9-17, linear, reaching 14-2 in. long; 
1-3 lines broad, bluntish or subacute with a distinct mucro, thin for the 
